Ryan Murphy bought Tom Ford’s Bel Air home & the star-studded video tour is a gay realtor’s wet dream
American Horror Story kingpin Ryan Murphy.In 2022, Murphy, 58, and husband David Miller purchased a Bel Air home built by renowned mid-century modern architect Richard Neutra, which fashion designer Tom Ford previously bought and gutted more than 20 years earlier.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.While Ford completely transformed the home to his specifications and allegedly modeled Gucci stores at the time with the same sleek modern aesthetic, Murphy wanted to put his stamp on the property in order to turn it into his primary residence extravagant personal office. “When I went to look at it on a sweltering August day in 2022, it struck me that this landmark needed a big swing à la the one Ford gave it,” Murphy said in the new issue of Architectural Digest. “I intended to use this jewel box of a building as an office and entertaining space, and it needed a new perspective.”A post shared by Architectural Digest (@archdigest)After more than a year and thanks to the handy work of interior designer Trevor Cheney, Murphy’s opulent workspace is ready for its close-up.
For the over-the-top reveal, Murphy called up a star-studded line-up of actresses to narrate the video tour which is worthy of its own limited-series.Curating muses from his litany of projects like AHS, Dahmer, and Feud: Capote Vs.
The Swans, Murphy enlisted Demi Moore, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Neicy Nash-Betts, Chloë Sevigny and Diane Lane to add their ASMR-like voiceovers to the tour which plays out like an 11-minute guided meditation of the ultimate in real estate porn.“Ryan Murphy’s 25-year career in Hollywood has been built around two foundational properties, a devotion to beauty, and a belief in conflict, pairing things, people, and ideas that shouldn’t go together, and yet, when the alchemy is right, magically do,” Moore begins as the camera pans up a.
